Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

Upcoming Events

Date
Fri April 26th 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Alexander Kusenko

Black holes formed in the early universe can make up all or part of dark matter.  I will review some scenarios for their formation, especially those that arise from common models of physics…

Past Events

Date
Fri December 15th 2023, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Sarah Geller

In my talk,  I will present recent work on the formation of primordial black hole dark matter and the resultant gravitational wave signal, drawing from recent results of …

Date
Fri November 17th 2023, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Zach Bogorad

There are a variety of experimental and astrophysical constraints on non-gravitational interactions of dark matter, both with itself and with the Standard Model.

Date
Fri November 3rd 2023, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Tanner Trickle

With the direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from LIGO in 2016, and recent evidence from the NANOGrav collabortion for a stochastic GW background, GW astronomy is becoming an important…

Date
Fri October 27th 2023, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Erwin Tanin

The baryon sector of the present universe is almost entirely matter and no antimatter.

Date
Fri October 20th 2023, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Reuven Balkin

In this talk, I’ll discuss new ways of probing BSM physics using environmental effects - in particular the dense environments of stellar remnants .

Date
Fri October 6th 2023, 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 312
Speaker
Will DeRocco

Gravitational waves with frequencies below 1 nHz are notoriously difficult to detect and fall below the typical cutoff frequency for conventional pulsar timing analyses.